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India’s trade with Mexico: Transcending geography

India’s trade with Mexico: Transcending geography

India’s present economic engagement with Mexico has shown impressive improvements, transcending the barriers of distance. It is now time to enter a new era of partnership that hinges on deeper...
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Higher education: A pathway to economic development

Higher education: A pathway to economic development

India is a leading source country for students wishing to study abroad. But it is now time to build a robust education ecosystem within the country, which will attract quality...
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Indo-US ties under Biden: Retrieving the momentum

Indo-US ties under Biden: Retrieving the momentum

Indo-US relations are expected to remain complex under the Joe Biden administration, even as the former can expect a more pragmatic and 'multilateral' approach on trade issues. However, in the...
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Indian brands face friction points for cross border e-commerce

Indian brands face friction points for cross border e-commerce

Rohit Kulkarni, Vice President, Payoneer (India), explains that while brand building for small & medium businesses (SMBs) online may be difficult, it is essential to boost global growth. Indian SMEs...
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Government must offer additional subsidy for producing export quality pulses

Government must offer additional subsidy for producing export quality pulses

Dr Narendra Pratap Singh, Director at Indian Institute of Pulses Research, opines that factors like increase in procurement of pulses, creation of buffer stocks, increase import duties, revoking restrictions on...
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NEWS BUZZ

70% yoy growth in exports of engineering goods

The growth in the engineering sector brings hope for sustained growth in future, supported by vaccination drive and control of virus spread.

US asks for public inputs on wage levels

The final rule will affect the employers in the US looking for foreign workers on a permanent or temporary basis through some immigrant visas.

India, UAE and Israel’s trilateral trade has immense potential

Top diplomats said that the trilateral trade between  India, Israel and the UAE has a potential worth US$ 110 billion by 2030.

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ECONOMY

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Demand for agricultural labour in India is highly skewed

Prof. Brajesh Jha, Institute of Economic Growth, assert...

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Global economy, COVID vaccine and green shoots of hope

The global economy is showing signs of a revival, yet t...

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Union Budget 2021-22: Economic revival on the bedrock of infrastructure

As India endeavours to revive its economy post-COVID, a...

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TRADE

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Foreign Trade Policy: Trade facilitation more important than export incentives

Prof Basanta Sahu, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, v...

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Resolving India’s export credit issues to drive competitiveness

Financial institutions in India must strategize their e...

Trade in COVID-19 related medical products: The Indian experience

The pandemic has evolved both as a challenge and an opp...

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IBT Infographics

Consumer goods trade

India’s consumer goods exports: At an inflexion point?

India’s exports of consumer goods surged by over 60 times between 1990 and 2020. But India has a low share in high value-added products so far, with primary food pharma. textiles...

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CHOPPER VIEW

Rohit Kulkarni

Indian brands face friction points for cross border e-commerce

Rohit Kulkarni, Vice President, Payoneer (India), expla...

Both Indian & Israeli companies believe in personal relationships

Natasha Zangin, Counsellor, Head of Economic and Commer...

India has an untapped cross border e-tail potential of US$ 2 bn

Vidmay Naini, Country Manager, eBay in India explains â...

Morbi ceramics cluster is investing Rs 8,000-10,000 crore in new facilities

Hiren Varmora, Director, Varmora Granito Pvt Ltd, detai...

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PERSPECTIVES

India-idea.

The next decade could see many Indian innovative companies emerge

C S Murali, Chairman, Entrepreneurship Cell, Society fo...

B2B companies need to understand the value of digitisation

Dr Venkatesh Shankar, Mays Business School feels that B...

India can leverage contract farming to boost value added exports

Prof Jagdish Sheth takes a deep dive on the various mod...

2020 and beyond: The pivot predicament!

Nandu Nandkishore, Professor of Practice, Indian School...

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AGRICULTURE

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Government must offer additional subsidy for producing export quality pulses

Dr Narendra Pratap Singh, Director, IIPR opines that th...

Sustainable agriculture needs innovative partnerships

If producers adopt certain sustainable business practic...

Technology in Indian agriculture should not displace labour

Jayan Jose Thomas, Professor of Economics at the Indian...

Scripting an export success story for Indian pulses

India's pulses production has increased steadily over t...

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INDUSTRY

India steel sector

Steel sector: A relook at FTAs with Japan & South Korea

India's steel industry faces disadvantages due to FTAs ...

Living life bite size: Healthy snacking in the post-COVID world

COVID-19 has precipitated a definitive shift towards he...

2021 will be a breakthrough year for the EV industry

Rohan Rao, Partner – Industrial and Automotive, KPMG ...

Tesla’s entry will provide a boost to the Indian EV industry

Deepak MV, CEO & Co-founder, Etrio feels that 2021 will...

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SERVICES

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Higher education: A pathway to economic development

India needs to focus on strategies to improve student-t...

Virtual dining: The new normal in the Indian F&B industry

The F&B industry in India and across the globe embraced...

Seize the Opportunity in Medical Tourism post Covid19

The huge backlog of elective surgeries in markets acros...

Healthcare spending in the budget: Stepping stone to good economics

The Indian government has hiked allocation on healthcar...

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STARTUPS & TECH

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Womenometrics: The long-overdue rise of women startups in India

As the Government, along with private sector – incuba...

We want our healthy products to be made in India but have a global appeal

Uma Machani & Srivardhan Sethuram, founders, Monsoon Ha...

De-risking the insurance industry with AI

The advent of AI promises a transformative impact acros...

Companies should be cautious about digital over-reach

IIM Ahmedabad’s Prof. Anuj Kapoor posits that the omn...

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TRADE BASKET

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Cumin seeds exports: Sailing with the tide

India has emerged the largest exporter of cumin seeds g...

Black pepper export: Reviving a lost legacy

Indian black pepper is undergoing a vicious cycle of de...

Asafoetida finally acquires Indian roots

Asafoetida or heeng has been a staple of Indian kitchen...

A silver lining for Indian rice exports?

Rice exporters of India are expecting a windfall as Tha...

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TRADE PARTNER

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India’s trade with Mexico: Transcending geography

India’s present economic and trade engagement with Me...

Indo-US ties under Biden: Retrieving the momentum

Indo-US relations may remain complex under the Joe Bide...

India & Bangladesh – Moving Together to the East

The present year is a momentous one for India and Bangl...

India-UK Economic Ties: Towards a Shared Prosperity

The marvellous successes that India and UK have exhibit...

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WORLDVIEW

Zoom meeting TPCI

Lights, video, action! How to ace the Zoom sales call

When you want to engage with your clients, video callin...

Hydrogen fuel cells: Going green, but can be greener!

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles can deliver a real contribu...

Herd immunity: A fallacy or the unavoidable reality?

Immunization programmes require massive funding, infras...

Solar Energy: Eclipsing the earth’s future?

Governments across the world are aggressively adopting ...

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IBT Magazine

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Business Terminology

Export Promotion Capital Goods Scheme

EPCG scheme aims to facilitate the import of capital goods with the purpose to produce good quality merchandise and service and improve India’s competitiveness in manufacturing. ...

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